Background: Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a key pro-inflammatory cytokine that is secreted by accumulated active macrophages in ectopic tissue of endometriosis. MIF is involved in pathophysiological events of endometriosis, such as angiogenesis and cell proliferation. MIF that stimulates the synthesis of PGE2, leads to over-expression of local estradiol synthesis in endometrio...

Wei Sheng ZENG Shou Zheng TANG Zeng, Wei Sheng. Academy of Forest Inventory and Planning , State Forestry Administration, #18 Hepingli East Street, East District, Beijing 100714, China. E-mail address: [email protected]. Tang, Shou Zheng. Institute of Forest Resources Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, #1 Dongxiaofu, Xiangshan Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100091, China. E-mail a...

Random projections can reduce the dimensionality of point sets while keeping approximate congruence. Applying random to optimization problems raises many theoretical and computational issues. Most issues in application conic programming were addressed Liberti et al. (Linear Algebr. Appl. 626:204–220, 2021) [1]. This paper focuses on semidefinite programming.

Action recognition in surveillance video makes our life safer by detecting the criminal events or predicting violent emergencies. However, efficient action recognition is not free of difficulty. First, there are so many action classes in daily life that we cannot pre-define all possible action classes beforehand. Moreover, it is very hard to collect real-word videos for certain particular actio...